This VA Has 4 Sources of Income

How does Victoria make money online?   

As Victoria shared in the April 2021 video below, she has 4 sources of income. She works as a full-time virtual assistant, but she also earns money from brand collaborations, affiliate marketing, and ad placement on her website and YouTube channel.

As she says in that video…

I am a full-time VA working throughout the day, not the graveyard shift. I managed that by getting 3 part-time clients who are all very kind, appreciative, and understanding.

As a virtual assistant, Victoria works about 45 hours per week at a rate of $6-8 per hour.

One of her clients is a doctor for whom she does mostly data entry tasks. She enters patient notes into hospital software to be uploaded, and helps with personal errands like organizing the doctor’s wedding. Victoria usually works 2 hours per day for this client.

Her second client is in web development, so Victoria works as a content editor. She makes sure that content generated by AI software isn’t duplicated, that it is grammatically correct, and that it sounds as if it was written by a human being. For this client, she works 5 hours per day.

The third client is a health & fitness coach, so Victoria mostly does social media management. She creates and schedules content for the Instagram page, manages her client’s blog, and is in charge of email marketing. These tasks take up to 2 hours of her day. 

Every task that I do varies from client to client because they have different needs. The end goal as a VA is for you to help your client free up more of their time by doing tasks that they don’t want to do.

How much money does Victoria make?

Upon getting her laptop in January 2021, Victoria started applying to many different jobs. Three months later, she was hired as a freelance captioner at Rev. ¹

As a captioner I earned $1,736 in total for six weeks. Unfortunately, I was let go because my accuracy metric had fallen below their Captions metrics standards. 

In one of her later videos from April 2022, Victoria reported that her business brings in around $1,100 per month… 

I’m privileged enough to have all of my income considered 100% savings. My husband is financially responsible for us, so I’m not required to contribute to paying our bills. I use my money to buy him gifts and “luho” for myself, so he doesn’t have to.  

Victoria shares a breakdown of her estimated monthly income in the above video…

• VA Work
  $1,080 per month
• Brand Collaborations
  $85 – $512 per month
• Affiliate Marketing
  $26 per month
• Google Adsense (on website and YouTube videos)
  $200 per month

What’s Victoria’s background?

Victoria is a graduate with a BA in Political Science. She’s a full-time mom of one son. She is also a freelance VA, and a blog owner. 

Serendipity the Blog is a reflection of my thoughts, passion, activities, and memorable moments in family life and motherhood, as well as personal misses and successes.

Victoria has recently published two e-books about self-development and cultivating a mindset for being more productive.

On her YouTube channel, she shares advice and tips on how to land VA jobs, become a more productive person, keep track of personal finances, and similar topics. 

Even though Victoria started as a VA with no experience, she cultivated certain personality traits, skills, and knowledge. According to her, to become a successful VA, you should nurture some specific qualities… 

As long as you are a clear communicator, you’re good to go. Since you’ll be handling personal information, details, and accounts of clients, you must also be trustworthy. The majority of clients are looking for a person who is willing to learn, and who is organized and detail-oriented. Of course, being tech savvy is a great indicator of your value as a virtual assistant. ²

How does Victoria find clients?

According to the video below, Victoria met her first client as a virtual assistant in May 2021.

My first client found me on YouTube and then she messaged me on Instagram. She thought that my content aligned with the kind of person she was looking for, so she hired me on the spot.

She didn’t have any prior experience in working as a virtual assistant. Her advice to those considering becoming a VA is…

If you don’t have any experience, like me, then I recommend applying to VA agencies. They will provide you with the necessary training for becoming a virtual assistant.

Victoria also found two more clients through an online freelancing platform in the Philippines. 

The first client is a web developer who provides her with content writing tasks for his website. The second is a health & fitness coach who hired Victoria for her social media management. 

In the last video above, Victoria explains how she landed both clients…

I got my second client by applying at a job listing on a freelancing platform. He chose me because I was the only applicant who submitted a video resume with my application, which was part of the instructions. 

My third client chose me out of 4 other applicants because of my website. She saw that I had attention to detail and that I knew something about branding.

What tools / resources does Victoria use?

According to the video below, these are some of Victoria’s favorite apps.

• PDFelement by Wondershare

I use it as a PDF reader and editor. My favorite function is that it can define signature workflows and send PDF files to others for signature approval and contract execution. This is the feature I use the most as a virtual assistant.

• Asana

A project management tool that makes it easier for the client and virtual assistant to collaborate in regard to tasking. My client usually gives me tasks through a chat or text message, so if I’m busy doing other assignments sometimes I sometimes forget about them. Instead of writing down my assignments on paper, by using Asana they can be viewed on a platform.
 

• Slack

I’ve been using Slack since my first client. This is the best communication application when it comes to remote work. You can have different channels which is helpful when managing multiple clients. Different projects can have their own channels, too, so the communication is streamlined and more organized.

• PayPal

This has proven to be the most convenient way for my clients to pay me. They can create a PayPal account in just a few steps, while others require a lot of documents for them to be able to create an account.
 

• Google Drive

My number one tool for remote collaborative work. It’s where I upload all the files in a master folder which I then share with my clients and it’s easy to learn how to use it. This application is the main core of my job as a virtual assistant.

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